Etiqueta: USA
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Wishbone
Too ugly, too chubby, too Latina?… too brave to be eclipsed. Pilar and Pili are two young women separated by an entire generation. Pili lives in 1970s Laredo, on the Mexican border in South Texas. She has a flammable personality and routinely flouts the cultural expectations of femininity in her machismo-oriented Mexican American community.…
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The Spring of Evil (La primavera del mal) (TV Series)
Crime has no limits nor frontiers. Early 20th century. The Chinese have control of the drug cartel over the border of Mexico and the United States. However, their domination is short lived when all the power they had is brutally stripped away from them. The revolution´s victorious coronels and militants have taken possession of…
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Covert Miami – Original Project (TV Series / Film)
Based on the life of undercover agent Izzy Vega. Covert Miami is based on the life of the successful undercover Cuban-American detective Izzy Vega, and his constant struggle against the Cuban mafia in Miami and New Jersey. In 1969, the Medina family runs away from Cuba and settles in New Jersey. Izzy, from childhood, has…
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The Difficult Light (La luz difícil) (TV Series/ Film)
Jacobo has decided to die. The only thing left is to celebrate life. David is a successful Colombian father, painter, who left his hometown to look for a better future in The United States with his wife, Sara, and his three children: Jacobo, Pablo and Arturo. Now, old and widowed, he moves back to Colombia,…
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Gloria Damasco Saga
In her dreams hide the key to solving the case. The Gloria Damasco saga is a faithful tribute to the noir novel; it joins the political and human rights problems of the Chicano sector with the essence of the purest mystery genre. Most of Gloria’s cases happen in the San Francisco Bay Area. We find…
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The Ones in Saint Patrick’s Batallion (Los del San Patricio)
The story of the men whose morality made them move to the opponent side. The real story of John Riley and his colleagues, the irishmen who fought in 1846 within the side of the Americans during the Mexican-American War. They, who had escaped from hunger and the oppression in Ireland, could not remain submissive in…
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Desert Blood (Sangre en el desierto)
There are dead girls who do not make any noise… Ivon Villa is a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles who returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby boy from Cecilia, a Mexican maquiladora living across the border in Juarez. Cecilia is found dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of…
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River of Angels
A city divided by a river. The population separated by their ethnic origins. One bridge as the rallying point. The Rios are an established local family of Mexican origins who work on the building of the Los Angeles River bridges. Due to the rapid social changes the city is experiencing, Otchoo Ríos, the chief of…
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Awaken – Original Project
Wake up, nothing is real. Mysterious disappearances are taking place in the USA once and again: a Boeing 747 crashed, and no bodies are found; a ferry without passengers beached in Monterrey; in a children’s baseball match in Detroit the audience disappears. The FBI investigations point to alien abductions as the main cause of the…
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The Brigade (La Brigada) – Original Project
During the Spanish Civil War – from 1936 to 1939 – there were volunteer soldiers from different countries. Among all these volunteers, there was one brigade formed by the Americans that cannot be forgotten: The Lincoln Brigade. The Brigade tells the story of these heroes that gave their lives fighting for freedom. This series of thirteen episodes…
